Baltimore tutors launch campaign to keep AARP program in the city
Jamal Davis wanted to do something when he learned in May that Experience Corps, a tutoring program that links students in Baltimore City schools with adults 50 and older, might have to close its doors due to insufficient funding.Experience Corps is run by the D.C.-based AARP Foundation, which advocates for adults 50 and older. After AARP announced that it could no longer fund the tutoring program, a group of Baltimore-area tutors launched a campaign to keep it going.
“For me, the decision to leave and evacuate Baltimore was unacceptable, and we asked that AARP consider some different form of investment,” he said. “AARP Foundation has invested $300,000 for each [Elev8 and the YMCA] program over the course of three years,” Moses wrote. The goal of Experience Corps is to help students read at their respective grade level by third grade, according to the foundation. The program, which began in Baltimore 12 years ago, at its pre-coronavirus height worked with 233 classrooms in 31 schools and after-school facilities, according to the foundation’s most recent data.Tierra Thompson said two of her children participated in the program while attending the Johnston Square Elementary School.
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